(R-L) Congress leaders Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Rahul Gandhi, party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and others leave from the office of National Human Rights Commission of I...
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National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) members visit the encounter site where yesterday police shot dead four accused involved in the rape-and-murder case of a woman veterinarian,...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah speaks during NHRC foundation day function at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi.
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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu (c), National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chief Justice H L Dattu (3rd R) and others during the silver jubilee celebration at NHRC, in New Delhi....
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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chief Justice H L Dattu (C) during the silver jubilee celebration at NHRC, in New Delhi.
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Chief Justice of India, Justice Dipak Misra speaks during the NHRC Foundation Day function in New Delhi.
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Artists perform at the NHRC Foundation Day function in New Delhi.
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Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad addressing at the Valedictory Session of the two-day National Seminar on Good Governa...
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Union home minister Rajnath Singh addressing a seminar on "Good Governance, Development and Human Rights" organised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in New Delhi.
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Union home minister Rajnath Singh, NHRC Chairperson, Justice H.L. Dattu (right), and Justice P.C. Ghose (left) at a seminar on "Good Governance, Development and Human Rights" orga...
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Navneet Kaur Bhullar (2nd R), wife of Khalistani terrorist Devenderpal Singh Bhullar, who is on the death row, along with Manjeet Singh GK (R), President of Delhi Unit of Shiromani...
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Sitting Pretty Does the NHRC deserve K.G. Balakrishnan as its chairman?
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National Human Rights Commission team meet the villagers during a visit of Bhatta Parsaul in Greater Noida.
What was supposed to be India’s watchdog against rights violations has turned into what critics call a government arm for obfuscation and occasional apologies
In a country where 90 rapes are reported every day and extrajudicial killings rarely shock people, the gunning down of the Hyderabad rape suspects only hints at a sloppy judicial system
Cases of arrest of Adivasis collecting forest produce for their livelihood abound in the area and they lived in constant fear of being dispossessed of their land. Now with the FRA’s legal force on their side, their struggle for their land continues.
J-K BJP spokesperson Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo has sought the intervention of the commission for direction to authorities to provide security to all sarpanches in Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking at the 45th session of Human Rights Council (HRC), the Indian representative said that it has become habitual for Pakistan to malign India with false and fabricated narratives for its self-serving malicious purposes.
The NHRC has issued a notice to the secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, asking for a comprehensive report within four weeks on the observations made by the commission.
In January 2019, a new study by researchers of IIT, Gandhinagar (published in the Geophysical Research Letters) used soil analysis for the first time to show that the famine of 1943 was not caused by drought but by Churchill's policies and wilful negligence.